Tracy Berger

Write a letter in support of Tufts Full-Time Lecturers Union

From Tufts Full-Time Lecturers Union at SEIU Local 509: In light of the indispensable contributions of A&S Full-Time Lecturers (FTLs) at Tufts University, it is imperative that Tufts address their current workload and salary challenges. The Tufts administration must reach a fair and equitable resolution to their ongoing contract negotiations. Read more and send a […]

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Sign Petition to Save The Bridge Peer Counseling Center at Stanford

From Stanford Graduate Workers Union (UE): The Bridge Peer Counseling Center has provided the entire Stanford community with 24/7 access to mental health, relationship, and academic counseling since 1971, and is run entirely by student volunteers trained in 85+ hours of counseling and crisis response (QPR) skills. Stanford’s Department of Student Affairs is considering defunding

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The NCSCBHE 2024 Directory: A Boon to Unions, Researchers and Educators

From Joe Berry, Delegate to HELU from AFT 2121, City College of San Francisco; Member, Outreach Committee The new 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions in Higher Education by William A Herbert, Jacob Apkarian, and Joseph van der Naald is an excellent update of the last 2012 comprehensive directory issued by the

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“Alone our debts are a burden, but together they give us power.”

From Jason Wozniak, Associate Professor at West Chester University, PA, Member of APSCUF, Delegate to HELU from The Debt Collective In 2024, Debt Collective – the nation’s first debtors’ union – became a dues-paying HELU member organization. At Debt Collective we believe that debt is fundamentally a labor issue. When labor is weak and unionization

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Why should healthcare unions join HELU? 

From Carolyn Kube MT (ASCP), Vice President for Professionals, United University Professions (UUP) at SUNY, HELU Steering Committee Member and Outreach Committee Vice Chair Just as faculty and staff say, “Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions,” healthcare workers say, “Our working conditions are our patients living or dying conditions.”  Higher Education Labor United (HELU)

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United Steelworkers Local 1088 is newest HELU member

From Jesús Fernández, TUGSA-AFT Local 6290, HELU Steering Committee Member and Outreach Committee Chair During the last weeks of the Fall 2024 semester, the HELU Outreach team met with several members of United Steelworkers Local 1088. USW Local 1088 represents academic and staff workers in colleges and universities around the Pittsburgh area. After the meeting between

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PSU-AAUP Strike Fund Announced

Our colleagues at PSU-AAUP are asking that union siblings support their strike-ready preparations by contributing to their newly-announced strike fund. PSU-AAUP asks that union siblings show solidarity by contributing as individuals, bringing motions to local unions to provide strike fund contributions, and spreading this call for contributions far and wide. PSU-AAUP is the Portland State University

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